That very night the Indian chief ferried his men across the river on rafts, six or eight miles above the forks, and by dawn was on the point of hurling his whole force, of nearly a thousand warriors on the camp of his slumbering foes.

[They of course made out-of-pocket money, ferrying passengers on the return.

And when they came to the Danube so wide They shouted from off the shore, 'Come over, come over, ye Roman slaves, And ferry your masters o'er.'

Never a breeze from the sandal hill could ferry thee over a silent sea so gently as will I, by breathing into thy raptured ear tales of thy old forgotten past with fond and fragrant lips.

The gun-boats were navigated in triumph to the Patriot camp, and did excellent service in ferrying the troops across the Apure.

Yet notwithstanding the annoyance of ferrying our horses across the Derwent, we returned to Hobart, very much pleased with the day's sport.

Everybody is out in the open air; the woods, although they still look wintry, are filled with people, and the boatmen on the Main are busy ferrying gay parties across.

This man wanted to employ some one to take care of his boat and to ferry people across the river.

When they came to the Tennessee they spent the entire night in ferrying the arms across and swimming the horses; they used bundles of dry cane for rafts, and made four "bull-boats" out of the hides of steers.

The boat builders worked where enemy airmen could not see them, and when the craft were completed the troops were practised at night in embarking and ferrying across a waterwayfor this purpose the craft were put on a big pondand in cutting a path through thick cactus hedges in the dark.

Skillful fishermen safely ferried the rest of the American army across to New York.

" As soon as dawn bloomed in the woods we breakfasted, and ferried the river before sunrise.

They gave us some hides taken from some of the cattle they had recently slain, and from these we constructed a boat and ferry rope in which we crossed the river, and then continued our journey to the mining camp on Aqua Frio, in Mariposa county.

P. 16, l. 252, A boat, two-oared.]She sees Charon, the boatman who ferried the souls of the dead across the river Styx.

My heroes, of course, were Shivram Borkar and Babal Borkar, ace drivers who by day ferried the shift editorial staff to and from quarters in Margao to office in Davorlim .

One of the wounded converts was up, and hobbling with a stick; but the other would never be ferried down any stream known to man.

They deemed me fairly settled, As though just ferried o'er the Styx, But I was tougher mettled.

Reaching her destination after a long and painful journey and delays of many kinds, she found her husband living in a log-hut, on the border of Talupa River, a hut which he had built himself, and earning his bread by ferrying travellers across that stream.

The husband goes on shore to his work, and leaves his wife to make a trifle by ferrying persons over, or letting out the boat to pleasure parties.

Orkhan's son, Suleiman, this time ferried a large army over the Hellespont, and, by taking and holding Gallipoli and Rodosto, secured a passage from continent to continent, which the Ottomans would never again let go.

I roped in some old field hands from my WCT days, down to the last detail of Nandu Zambaulikar, to ferry newspaper bundles south of the Zuari!

He should receive one dollar for ferrying footmen and no more.

OBELUS, a small coin worth about a penny, according to a custom among the Greeks placed in the mouth of a corpse at burial to pay to Charon to ferry the ghost of it over the Styx.